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1 week ago | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
Architecture News Léon Krier, the controversial architect and planner who spearheaded the New Urbanism movement, died this Tuesday in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He was 79. Suffering from colon cancer, he apparently jumped to his death from the walls of Palma’s cathedral—though they do not name him, local newspapers have reported the suicide of a 79-year-old Luxembourger.
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2 weeks ago | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
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“Architecture is a great tool for discovering the world,” says Geneva-born Leopold Banchini. In his adult life to date, the 43-year-old has lived, studied, and worked in places as diverse as Australia, Bahrain, Morocco, Portugal, Scotland, the U.S., and his native Switzerland.
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1 month ago | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
Architecture News It’s rather like periodical cicadas: before you know it, it’s here again, and there’s always way too much of it. This past weekend, the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale opened to the public, curated by Carlo Ratti on a theme of Intelligens. Natural. Artificial.
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1 month ago | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
Standing out from the crowd is all about the company you keep. If your immediate neighbors are generic housing towers, attracting attention is easy in Hong Kong. But when you’re located between Central and Admiralty, with I.M. Pei’s twistingly triangulated Bank of China and Paul Rudolph’s “look-at-me!” Lippo Centre right next door, not to mention Foster + Partners’ fabled HSBC headquarters just opposite, the competition is far more daunting.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
ribaj.com | Andrew Ayers
Back in 2007, in what seems like another world – one where Muammar Gaddafi was still president of Libya, Brexit was not a referendum issue, and architects’ expertise was taken seriously by governments – the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced the appointment of a think-tank to come up with ideas for the future of Paris and its hinterland.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
ProjectsBuildings by TypeSnapshotTransportation Architecture “This is a building with no facade!” proclaims Dominique Perrault gleefully as he ushers a gaggle of journalists around his latest achievement, the gargantuan Gare de Villejuif-Gustave Roussy. A major interchange on the Grand Paris Express, the French capital’s new suburban metro network, the station currently serves the extended Line 14, which now links the center to Orly Airport.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
ProjectsBuildings by TypeSnapshotTransportation Architecture “This is a building with no facade!” proclaims Dominique Perrault gleefully as he ushers a gaggle of journalists around his latest achievement, the gargantuan Gare de Villejuif-Gustave Roussy. A major interchange on the Grand Paris Express, the French capital’s new suburban metro network, the station currently serves the extended Line 14, which now links the center to Orly Airport.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
The price of freedom is always high. When, in 1861, the principality of Monaco sought to ensure its independence, it ceded 95 percent of its then territory to France. Reduced to a tiny dot on the map, the sovereign city-state—which ceased taxing residents in 1869, thanks to the enormous income generated by its casino—expanded its territory seven times between 1907 and 2002. On each occasion, land was wrested from the sea, taking Monaco’s surface area to a total of 0.8 square miles.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
Architecture NewsOpinion “Everything is architecture,” he famously declared, and just as infamously reduced it to a series of pills designed to procure spatial and sensorial experiences without going to the bother and expense of constructing a building.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers
In most countries, the idea of hiring an architect to design one’s home occurs only to design aficionados or the very wealthy. In the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, however, there is a culture of ordinary people asking design professionals to build them houses. The couple Georges and Roza of Mol, about 12 miles from the Dutch border, are one example.
